Nine Mile Music Festival 2013 With Stephen, Damian, and Julian Marley, 2 Chainz, Future, Mavado, Capleton, and many others Virginia Key Beach Park Saturday, March 2, 2013 Better Than: Freezing your butt off at a non-reggae outdoor festival. There is no doubt that 50-degree weather in Jamaica does not exist…
It isn’t easy straddling commercial success and underground credibility in the world of electronic dance music. But Swedish superstar DJ-producer Eric Prydz makes it seem effortless. Whether he’s topping the charts with feel-good dance pop under his own name or challenging even the most seasoned prog house and techno heads…
Leave it to local punk and metal promotions powerhouse Speedfreek to convince Valencia, California’s Infest to fly cross-country to Miami for the band’s first show outside of its home state. Ever. Infest’s discography is meager, and the band never left California. But somehow the group has still reached every punk-rock…
Winter Music Conference is a rich tradition that, despite the ignorance of some younger rave fans, has been going strong for 28 years. Over the decades, it’s evolved quite a lot, and now the party has eclipsed the “conference” atmosphere of old. Robbie Rivera remembers how it used to be,…
Thirtysomething goth rockers are an underexploited demographic.Let’s get real: the Jersey Guido bubble has already burst and Rednecks are the wasted-on-television teenage simulacrums du jour. And how long can that last? Pseudo-reality television producers need to wake up and smell the blogging (which, in case you were wondering, smells like…
What does it take to throw the perfect party? Ask Gary Richards, aka Destructo, AKA the man behind the curtain of all Hard events. He’s been in the music business since the ’90s, working with record labels, promoters, DJs, and everyone you could imagine. By now, he’s learned more than…
Everybody loves trap music. It’s been around for decades on the Southern hip-hop scene, but 2012 saw the trap house get raided by electro and house producers. And despite the fact that the EDM trap phenomenon is barely a year old, Ultra Music Festival has already granted the genre its…
These days, Dirtybird Records is almost as famous for its grilled meats as its ass-clapping beats. Blame a successful ten-year run of the San Francisco crew’s infamous renegade Golden Gate BBQ parties, not to mention last year’s inaugural WMC installment which broke the party concept to Dirtybird’s legions of international…
Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week are swiftly approaching, and we are really starting to “Feel the Love.” We’re not sure if it’s the anticipation of a million mollies waiting to get popped, or the recent announcement of a warm-up show by UK sensation Rudimentary, but either way, we’re…
EDM is a new music genre. And Skrillex invented bass music. Yeah, maybe if you’re a clueless American Gen Z glowstick raver. Because in the U.K., everyone and his grandmother knows electronic dance music has been going strong for more than three decades. Music historians even have a name for…
“There is a reason I have a stage name,” Alejandro Rose-Garcia (AKA Shakey Graves) admits. “There is something to be said about performing outside of yourself. I feel that when a lot of people get onstage, they become a bigger version of themselves. It’s the classic becoming the band.” But…
Smoking ganja isn’t just a recreational activity. It’s a righteously stoned ritual. “The more you accept herb is the more you accept Rastafari,” the patron saint of tokers, Bob Marley, explained in a TV interview a few years before his death from cancer in Miami at the tragically young age…
Better than: 90 percent of your other options on a Tuesday night.”We do what we do for this, right here” decreed Every Time I Die lead singer, Keith Buckley, as he stood tall at the edge of Grand Central’s stage, extolling the sanctity of sweaty club dates. Buckley’s declaration was…
Hold on. Has it really been 23 years since Wilson Phillips knocked Madonna’s “Vogue” off the top of the charts? Yeah. And it’s even been more than two decades since Carnie Wilson, her sister Wendy, and their friend Chynna Phillips called it quits just a couple of years after becoming…
“Before Adam and Eve, God created disco and cats — God was Spanish, of course,” say the Young Hearts. Sounds like the kind of God who could have created Miami — America’s tropical, hedonistic disco Garden of Eden.Disco cats are the concept behind Gato y Disco, Young Hearts’ exclusive WMC…
Yo, who’s hungry? We’re fucking starving. But before you start eating faces and torturing people, calm down. Raekwon the Chef is coming to feed Miami some meaty beats. The Wu-Tang Clan man will be stomping through The Stage on Saturday, March 9. He’s bound to exhibit some “Fly.International.Luxurious.Art,” because he’ll…
Saturday night is for him. It’s also for her. Thanks to Poplife, it’s for everyone, because the non-gender-specific get-down His and Hers was in full-swing at Grand Central’s upstairs Garret. This weekend, EDM mastermind, composer, and connoisseur Destructo hit the loft for its second installment of their new night. Naturally,…
There’s something inherently blue collar about working on cars. Grease stains. The inescapable smell of motor oil on calloused hands. Engine grit collecting under already dirty fingernails. The cigarette breaks. Similarly, there’s something inherently blue collar about Alejandro Rose-Garcia, the 25-year-old actor/musician behind Shakey Graves and one of NPR’s “Ten…
Come for the pretentious, arty stuff. Stay for the booze, Afro-Cuban funk, experimental freakouts, sports jams, drag queens, break dancing, and, uh, more booze. Once a year, New Times throws a big, ostensibly highbrow bash called Artopia. And officially, it’s “an eclectic touch of art, culture, fashion, food, music, and…
Destructo (AKA Gary Richards) is the electro-house chief in charge of Hard Events, the good people behind Holy Ship!!! and the Hard Miami parties during Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week. But Richards is more than just a promoter. He’s been DJing and producing his own killer tracks since…
And the uhntz-uhntz continues … Last month, the Opium Group dropped its Phase One lineup for Miami Music Week 2013, revealing eight shows at four clubs: Mansion, Cameo, SET, and Mokai. Now almost exactly four weeks later, the clubbin’ conglomerate has unveiled its Phase Two slate, including MMW throwdowns with…
Will JT and Jay-Z be hitting up the MIA? Last week, after Timberlake admitted “[Jay and I] are definitely going to go on tour” while walking the Grammys’ red carpet, we here at Crossfade insisted: “These two dapper dudes gotta make a stop in Miami, right?” And it seems as…
